It is 6 p.m. Thursday, March 20. Twenty-five people registered to follow the course entitled “Drive” (“Sköt Dig Själv”), offered free online, by the organization of women Lotta. Thirty, the two trainers start by giving some advice to recognize an emergency situation – the number to be called, the radio frequency to listen to. Then, for more than two hours, they detail the food and the equipment to store at home, before encouraging to cultivate a piece of garden or balcony, to increase the country's food self -sufficiency, dependent at 50 % of imports.
Civil defense organizations offer lessons like this every week in Sweden. If the possibility of an armed conflict is rarely mentioned there, it hovers in all minds. “Sweden is not at war. But she is not at peace either ”summarized the Conservative Prime Minister, ULF KrisSSON, on January 12. None of the 10 million inhabitants of the kingdom can ignore it. In November 2024, they all received, in their mailbox, a new edition of the booklet “in the event of a crisis or war”, distributed by the Civil Protection Agency, reminding them that they must have enough to eat, drink, heat and treat themselves, for a week, without any external help.
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Source: Lemonde